Sat 12 October 2019:
A total of 10 civilians have been killed and dozens more wounded in mortar attacks launched by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) on civilian areas in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin and Şanlıurfa provinces on Friday.
In a single attack on the Nusaybin district of southeastern Turkey’s Mardin, the PKK’s Syrian offshoot YPG killed eight civilians and wounded at least 35 others on Friday evening, the local governor’s office said.
Earlier Friday, the YPG targeted civilian areas in southeastern Şanlıurfa province’s Suruç district Friday, killing two civilians with mortar shells fired from across the Syrian border.
The shells hit a house in the district, while three more mortars fell in an empty lot in the district.
YPG terrorists have fired dozens of mortars into Turkish border towns since the start of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in northeast Syria on Oct. 9. With the latest attack, the civilian death toll from YPG attacks has reached nine.
The attack came just hours after two journalists were injured YPG terrorists after they opened fire on a restaurant in Nusaybin, in southeastern Turkey’s Mardin province near the Syrian border.
